From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 31 13:31:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF36E37B408 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 13:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merlin.emma.line.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F04A3831 for ; Fri, 31 May 2002 22:31:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 168AD36C8C; Fri, 31 May 2002 22:31:20 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE delayed References: <200205311652.g4VGq5YV004136@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <200205311652.g4VGq5YV004136@intruder.bmah.org> (bmah@freebsd.org's message of "Fri, 31 May 2002 09:52:05 -0700") From: Matthias Andree Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:31:19 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) writes: > We'll be doing another release candidate (4.6-RC4...for various > reasons I appreciate this. > there won't be a 4.6-RC3) on Monday, in which we hope to see the major > remaining issues addressed. We encourage you to see the testing page > for this release at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/qa.html It says ata(4) tags problems were related to motherboard-based ATA channels. I see that S=F8ren's patch to fix the panic on boot that I observed has now been merged into 4-STABLE, however, it seems as though the "timeout and fall-back to PIO" issue is still unfixed in 4-STABLE. My main board, a Gigabyte 7ZX-R rev. 1.0, offers four ATA channels. Two are driven by the south bridge, VIA KT133 (VT82C686 stuff), the other two are driven by a Promise PDC-20265R (in UDMA/100 mode). IIRC, this Promise chip is in the "doesn't to tags, but freezes" blacklist. VIA chips are not blacklisted, and AFAICS, tagged queueing not working on my system is a regression over 4.5-RELEASE which had working tagged queueing. S=F8ren said he was able to reproduce the timeout problem with tags, and we should expect a fix "real soon now". This is the only list I follow, but I haven't yet seen anything ata-related since. What's the release engineering team's opinion on this ata issue? Will 4.6 be delayed until the tagged stuff is fixed? Will 4.6 ship with ata tagged stuff disabled altogether? Or will 4.6 ship with ata as it is today, with the risk that it breaks some systems 4.5 ata did work on? --=20 Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message